{"id":512,"date":"2018-02-15T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=512"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:31:24","slug":"512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2018\/02\/15\/512\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gold from the Stone&#8221; and evening with Lemn Sissay &#8211; Student Success Project Inspirational Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to invite you to an evening with <strong>Lemn Sissay MBE<\/strong>\u00a0as part of our Inspirational Speaker Series, <strong>Monday 26<sup>th<\/sup> February, 5.30pm, Gulbenkian Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_Flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-514\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_Flyer-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_Flyer-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_Flyer-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_Flyer-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2018\/02\/Lemn_Sissay_Flyer-1920x1355.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>International poet\/writer, Poet Laureate of Canterbury and Chancellor of the University of Manchester,<\/strong>\u00a0 Lemn Sissay MBE is the author of several books of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, and plays. The Guardian newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lemnsissay.com\/1988\/09\/21\/guardian-1988-photo-by-don-mcphee\/#sthash.WJXpjUF5.dpbs\">heralded the arrival of his first book<\/a> Tender Fingers In A Clenched Fist. \u201cLemn Sissay has Success written all over his forehead\u201d. He was 21. Between the ages of 18 and 32 he tracked his family down across the world. His career as a writer happened in spite of his incredible life story not because of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please see flyer for full details. This event is free and open to all University of Kent Staff and Students with a valid ticket. Tickets available via<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/gold-from-the-stone-an-evening-with-canterburys-poet-laureate-lemn-sissay-mbe-tickets-42278561315\">EventBrite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Come and hear Lemn&#8217;s fascinating story, how he created <strong>&#8216;Gold from the Stone&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Come and join us for networking and free nibbles following the event. Come and meet Lemn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to invite you to an evening with Lemn Sissay MBE\u00a0as part of our Inspirational Speaker Series, Monday 26th February, 5.30pm, Gulbenkian Caf\u00e9 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2018\/02\/15\/512\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}